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US6851389B2
US6851389B2 US10/349,096 US34909603A US6851389B2 US 6851389 B2 US6851389 B2 US 6851389B2 US 34909603 A US34909603 A US 34909603A US 6851389 B2 US6851389 B2 US 6851389B2
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  • the present invention relates in general to the handling of live animals and regards more in particular a method and a system for transporting live poultry from where they are reared to the place of slaughter.
  • transporting units which include a supporting frame and a series of drawer-type cages, which are open at the top and are carried by the supporting frame in a mutually superimposed condition.
  • the drawer-type cages can be extracted either completely or in part from the supporting frame in order to enable loading of the poultry inside them and are then repositioned inside the frame, which is then transferred on board a transporting vehicle and sent to the slaughter house, where the poultry is unloaded from the drawer-type cages.
  • the operations of loading and unloading of the poultry can be carried out manually or else, more conveniently, using mechanized equipment.
  • Transporting units of the type specified above are known, for example, from the British patent application GB-A-2129672 in the name of Yale Autoflow Limited, according to which the arrangement of the transporting unit is such that the drawer-type cages are each time extracted partially in the direction of the front side of the frame, i.e., in the direction of the side at which the poultry are introduced, the drawer-type cages on top being kept inserted in the frame.
  • the drawer-type cage that has been filled is once again completely inserted into the frame, the poultry that have been put therein tend to undergo traumas due to the impact against the bottom of the drawer-type cage set above them, with the risk of bruising and injury.
  • the object of the present invention is to overcome the drawbacks of the two known solutions referred to above and to propose a method and a system for transporting live poultry in transporting units of the type defined above which will enable the operations of introducing the poultry into the drawer-type cages to be simplified and rendered more convenient, without jeopardizing or adversely interfering with the ease of the subsequent operation of unloading the poultry at the end of the transportation step.
  • the above purpose is achieved basically thanks to the fact that the supporting frame of the transporting unit is arranged for enabling at least partial extraction of said drawer-type cages in the direction of one side of the unit other than the front side, which is used for introducing the poultry into said drawer-type cages.
  • the side on which there is at least partial extraction may be the back one, i.e. the one opposite to the front side at which the poultry are put in, or else one or other of the lateral sides set at right angles to the front side where the poultry are put in.
  • the step of loading the poultry is carried out, at the front side of the transporting unit, according to the following procedure:
  • FIG. 1 is a schematic view, in side elevation, of a transporting unit used in the method and system for transporting live poultry according to the invention, represented in a first operating condition;
  • FIGS. 2 , 3 and 4 are views similar to FIG. 1 , which illustrate the transporting unit in subsequent operating conditions;
  • FIG. 5 is a perspective view, from underneath, of the frame of the transporting unit.
  • number 1 designates, as a whole, a transporting unit used in a system for transporting live poultry from where they are reared to the place of slaughter.
  • the unit 1 basically consists of a sturdy metal frame 2 , illustrated in detail in FIG. 5 , which has a generally parallelepipedal shape and is pre-arranged for supporting a plurality (in the example illustrated, four) of drawer-type cages 4 .
  • the drawer-type cages 4 are of a generally known type and, for reasons of brevity, will not be described in detail herein. For the purposes of the present invention, it is sufficient to clarify that said drawer-type cages 4 are conveniently made of a single parallelepipedal body made of moulded plastic material with a bottom wall and side walls, open at the top.
  • the drawer-type cages 4 are conveniently similar to the ones that have been manufactured and marketed for some time by Giordano Poultry Plast S.p.A. of Caraglio (Italy) and described in the European patent EP-B-0867113 filed in the name of Giordano Poultry Plast S.p.A., with possible slight structural modifications.
  • the said modifications may, for instance, regard the conformation of the perforated bottom of the drawer-type cage 4 , the perforations of which may consist—instead of circular holes as in the case of EP-B-0867113—elongated and/or cross-shaped slits.
  • the frame 2 comprises a base 5 shaped like a pallet, which can be handled by the forks of a fork-lift truck or the like, vertical uprights 6 , horizontal elements 7 , 8 , and possible diagonal reinforcements 9 .
  • the horizontal elements 8 define pairs of slide guides for the four drawer-type cages 4 between a position where they are set in inside the frame 2 , as represented in FIG. 4 , where they are set one on top of the other, i.e. mutually superimposed, with the bottom wall of the cage set above defining the lid of the cage set underneath, and a condition where the cage is partially or completely extracted from the frame 2 .
  • the frame 2 may have, on the front side 1 b additional vertical elements 10 and horizontal elements 11 , which prevent the drawer-type cages 4 from coming out.
  • FIGS. 1 to 3 loading of live poultry into the transporting unit 1 is performed in the way represented in FIGS. 1 to 3 .
  • the three drawer-type cages 4 set above the lowermost drawer-type cage 4 are partially extracted from the frame 2 by being made to slide—for approximately one half of their longitudinal extension—along the slide guides 8 in the direction of the back side 1 a of the transporting unit 1 .
  • the lowermost drawer-type cage 4 is rendered immediately accessible from above, through the front side 1 b of the unit 1 , for at least one half of its longitudinal extension so as to enable convenient and easy introduction of the poultry inside the cage.
  • the drawer-type cage 4 immediately above it is brought into the original set-in condition in such a way that its bottom wall closes completely the drawer-type cage 4 set underneath it as a lid.
  • the second drawer-type cage 4 is filled, keeping the third and the fourth drawer-type cages in the partially extracted condition (see FIG. 2 ).
  • the third drawer-type cage 4 is brought back into the set-in condition so as to close the second drawer-type cage at the top. Then, the third drawer-type cage 4 is filled (see FIG. 3 ).
  • a covering plate 12 is applied to the top of the frame 2 , the said plate functioning as a lid for the uppermost drawer-type cage 4 .
  • the unit 1 is transferred onto a transportation vehicle and is sent away to the slaughter house, where the poultry contained inside the drawer-type cages 4 are unloaded onto the corresponding equipment simply by extracting the drawer-type cages 4 from the back side 1 a of the unit 1 .
  • the side of the transporting unit 1 towards which the drawer-type cages 4 are partially extracted for the steps of loading is the back side 1 a opposite to the side 1 b for introduction of the poultry
  • the drawer-type cages 4 could, instead, be extracted in the direction of one or the other side of the unit 1 set at right angles to the said front side 1 b.

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